Sorrow. Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LMLM NENE BCBC O| To me this world's a dreary blank | A |
| All hopes in life are gone and fled | B |
| My high strung energies are sank | A |
| And all my blissful hopes lie dead | B |
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| The world once smiling to my view | C |
| Showed scenes of endless bliss and joy | D |
| The world I then but little knew | C |
| Ah little knew how pleasures cloy | D |
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| All then was jocund all was gay | E |
| No thought beyond the present hour | F |
| I danced in pleasure's fading ray | E |
| Fading alas as drooping flower | F |
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| Nor do the heedless in the throng | G |
| One thought beyond the morrow give | H |
| They court the feast the dance the song | G |
| Nor think how short their time to live | I |
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| The heart that bears deep sorrow's trace | J |
| What earthly comfort can console | K |
| It drags a dull and lengthened pace | J |
| 'Till friendly death its woes enroll | K |
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| The sunken cheek the humid eyes | L |
| E'en better than the tongue can tell | M |
| In whose sad breast deep sorrow lies | L |
| Where memory's rankling traces dwell | M |
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| The rising tear the stifled sigh | N |
| A mind but ill at ease display | E |
| Like blackening clouds in stormy sky | N |
| Where fiercely vivid lightnings play | E |
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| Thus when souls' energy is dead | B |
| When sorrow dims each earthly view | C |
| When every fairy hope is fled | B |
| We bid ungrateful world adieu | C |
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| AUGUST | O |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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